September 2012
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Parse.ly Blog: Parse.ly's →
parsely:
You may have seen that Parse.ly was featured in a TechCrunch article a couple of days ago. It was a great writeup by Sarah Perez, and we wanted to share it with you here.
Parse.ly Will Launch Its Pageview-Generating Machine Called “Dash” This Month:
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Parse.ly Blog: Parse.ly presentation at NYC Search... →
Hi Parse.ly fans. Andrew here. I just wanted to let you know that I presented Parse.ly at the NYC Search & Discovery Meetup on Thurs, Oct. 29. The meetup is organized by Otis Gospodnetic (blog), who is one of the authors of Lucene in Action and the author of the forthcoming…
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Roadmap for 2011 →
oscommerce:
Published by Harald Ponce de Leon
The biggest milestone in our history will be reached on March 31 2011 with the release of osCommerce Online Merchant v3.0. This is the result of years of hard work, community feedback, and patience! We thank the community and our partners tremendously for their support during this long development…
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Parse.ly Blog: NY Tech Meetup, API Launch &... →
Tomorrow Parse.ly will be presenting at the NY Tech Meetup. We’re part of the “university demo” segment, though we’re not actually university students anymore (if only!). This is a particularly good time to for us to talk to the New York Tech community. We have a few upcoming product…
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“And while the advances in media consumption technology for readers have been...”
– http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2012/01/why-publishers-are-about-to-go-data-crazy017.html
By Sachin Kamdar (via parsely)
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PBS NewsHour: NewsHour Publishes Videos,... →
newshour:
As websites for the NewsHour, Frontline and PBS remain under attack by hackers, the NewsHour has published its transcripts and videos from Monday night’s broadcast to Tumblr for the time being.
Thanks for your patience as we work to get everything back to normal.
Obama Names ‘Pragmatic’ Gen….
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TWITTER: @Sreenet's Twitter Guide for Newbies &...
sreetips:
Twitter Ideas: A work in progress by @sreenet [shortcut for this page at http://bit.ly/twitterideas ]
Suggestions welcome: sree[at]sree.net
WORKSHOP: FOUR THURSDAYS IN OCTOBER (+1 optional session!), Oct 7, 14, 21 & 28; 6:30 - 9 p.m, Columbia J-school: Social Media for Journalists, Bloggers & Media Professionals - register here
MY FEED: @sreenet -...
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Watchourrisd:
Fans of Lena Dunham’s 2010 film Tiny Furniture are psyched about Girls, the new HBO comedy that, like the movie, co-stars Jemima Kirke 08 PT as Lena’s headstrong friend.
Slated to air starting April 15, the show focuses on a lightly fictionalized version of Lena (below, to the left of Jemima, who’s at the far right) and three of her best buds (in real life and on the show) as they...
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#YouthSkillsWork: Develop new skills by... →
youth-skills-work:
By Amadou Moctar Diallo
In Senegal the main problem of youth is how to get a high-quality education that will allow them to get a decent job. The education system provide a curricula that is more oriented in fields related to teaching or working for the Government as an administrator….
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Watchbliptv:
After Anonymous knocked them offline for reasons that aren’t entirely clear, Stratfor has returned. Their first episode back explains what the world should expect from Russia in 2012.
See also: Stratfor founder and CEO George Friedman’s statement
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OSCOM v3.0 Application Actions →
oscommerce:
Published by Harald Ponce de Leon
What Application Actions Do Application Actions allows functionality to be added to Applications in a flexible manner without needing to edit core source code files. Actions typically define what page content is presented in a given situation and can load nested actions for further…
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Emptyage: Generation X Doesn't Want to Hear It →
Earlier generations have weathered recessions, of course; this stall we’re in has the look of something nastier. Social Security and Medicare are going to be diminished, at best. Hours worked are up even as hiring staggers along: Blood from a stone looks to be the normal order of things “going…
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Documentary Classics:
documentarychannel:
What makes a documentary a classic? It can be a combination of things, as in the case of Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi, which turns 30 on Saturday. This poetic landmark of cinema — literally, as recognized by the National Film Registry — was even a relative box office success, which would be a feat for any nonfiction work at the time but is especially notable considering...
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Realtime RSS: Dear Santa: Please, a new Facebook... →
It’s still Christmas for a few more hours and as my thoughts return to development (the last two weeks of the year are often my most productive) I’m hoping that Santa is getting ready to deliver a new API for Facebook. My hopes are up because when Facebook bought FriendFeed, they brought…
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Sallie Maehem: Practically Everything Wrong with...
occupystudentdebt:
Change.org petition and new video from #OccupyStudentDebt, OccupyStudentDebt.com
For immediate release
Tell Sallie Mae: Stop the Unemployment Penalty
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Introducing Penman
penmantheme:
We would like to introduce you to Penman, Style Hatch’s thirteenth premium Tumblr theme! Penman features an oversized layout and bold typography that allows your photos and videos to be boldly displayed in high definition and long text posts in a highly legible format. As always we give you all the customization options to completely change up the colors, layout, fonts and...
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Instagram Engineering: What Powers Instagram:... →
instagram-engineering:
One of the questions we always get asked at meet-ups and conversations with other engineers is, “what’s your stack?” We thought it would be fun to give a sense of all the systems that power Instagram, at a high-level; you can look forward to more in-depth descriptions of some of these systems in…
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Hank's Tumblr: New York Times?! The Response →
edwardspoonhands:
So today my name and YouTube channel were on the front page of the New York Times. My mom called me at 7:30 AM, there were like 10,000 tweets, John and I had a little party on the phone, Felecia Day tweeted at us. It is very exciting.
However, I’ve had several people (who don’t know a lot about…
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the understatement: Pick a Kindle, Any Kindle! →
understatementblog:
Four years ago Amazon introduced the original Kindle. Two years ago, there were just two models: the Kindle 2 and the large screen Kindle DX. After this week’s announcements, Amazon is now selling 14 different models under the Kindle brand. The current Kindle lineup varies on no fewer than 11…
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UN Pulse from U.N. Dag Hammarskjöld Library:... →
un-library:
The First Industry Conference of International, Regional and Sub-Regional Industry Associations on United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004) was held from 23 to 25 April, in Wiesbaden, Germany. Hosted by the Government of Germany, the conference is co-organized by the…
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UN Pulse from U.N. Dag Hammarskjöld Library:... →
un-library:
The First Industry Conference of International, Regional and Sub-Regional Industry Associations on United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004) was held from 23 to 25 April, in Wiesbaden, Germany. Hosted by the Government of Germany, the conference is co-organized by the…
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UN Pulse from U.N. Dag Hammarskjöld Library:... →
un-library:
UNFPA has released a new publication titled Managing Gender-based Violence Programmes in Emergencies.
UNFPA has also launched a companion guide to its Free E-Learning Course for professionals who are working to address Gender Based Violence in humanitarian contexts.
The e-learning…
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UN Pulse from U.N. Dag Hammarskjöld Library: World... →
un-library:
Africa and Asia together will account for 86 per cent of all growth in the world’s urban population over the next four decades, adding that this unprecedented increase will pose new challenges in terms of jobs, housing and infrastructure. Africa’s urban population will increase from 414…
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UN-Habitat: New Reports
un-library:
UN-Habitat has released the following publications:
Handling Land: Innovative Tools for Land Governance and Secure Tenure.This book shows how the Global Land Tool Network is addressing these problems by setting an international agenda on land. It features the land tools that the Network has developed.
Planificación de Ciudades Sostenibles: Orientaciones para Políticas (Planning...
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ARL Policy Notes: Library Associations File Brief... →
arlpolicynotes:
Last Friday, the Association of Research Libraries, the American Library Association, and the Association of College and Research Libraries filed a friend of the court brief to defend the fair use rights of libraries. The brief responds to the Authors Guild’s extraordinary arguments in a…
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UN Pulse from U.N. Dag Hammarskjöld Library:... →
un-library:
The International Day of Human Space Flight was declared by the General Assembly in 2011 “to celebrate each year at the international level the beginning of the space era for mankind” and to reaffirm “the important contribution of space science and technology in achieving sustainable…
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UN Pulse from U.N. Dag Hammarskjöld Library:... →
un-library:
Monday, 6th August 2012
On Friday 3rd August,the Council heard a briefing from peacekeeping head Hervé Ladsous on the UN Supervision Mission in Syria (UNSMIS), in a closed meeting. On the 20th July, in its 6812th meeting the council first considered the Report of the Secretary-General on…
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Latest publications by UNODC
un-library:
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has recently issued the following publications which can be downloaded in full from its website:
International Framework for Action to Implement the Smuggling of Migrants Protocol
Monitoring the impact of economic crisis on crime
Guidelines for the Forensic Analysis of Drugs Facilitating Sexual Assault and Other Criminal
Other...
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UNEP New Report
un-library:
The United Nations Environment Programme(UNEP), has released a new report titled Releasing the Pressure Water Resource Efficiencies and Gains for Ecosystem Services.This document discusses the need to balance short-term water productivity gains, in particular in agriculture with the long-term role that water flows provide for maintaining sustainable landscape ESS, and serving...
